ASUS ROG Strix G17 (2021) Gaming Laptop: 17.3” FHD 144Hz, RTX 💻 3050 Ti, Ryzen 7 5800H, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, RGB Keyboard, Windows 10 Review

- Nvidia Optimus with all the consequences. It cannot be disabled on this laptop (on some others you can - google "MUX switch Optimus"). That is, even if you select priority on RTX, the image will still pass through the embed, while utilizing CPU resources. For graphics-based games, the difference is a couple of%, but for all kinds of esports CS:GO, because of Optimus, instead of ~ 300 FPS, you will get ~ 240 on the same hardware. - Hot, very hot 5900HX, with wildly inadequate overclocking, cannot be undervolted - no XTU and no other CPU tuning software. In a load on all cores, it consumes ~ 85 W with a temperature of 80 * +, stifles the potential of the video card (they have one heatsink for two), and fries scrambled eggs if the laptop is on its knees (well, you understand). I solved this problem by disabling the turbo boost (instruction in the next review). Now the frequency is no higher than 3250 and does not go up to 4600. But the consumption has dropped to 35 W (by 2.4 times!), the temperature has dropped by 15*, and the cooler no longer roars like an airplane. In CPU-Z, it shows a result 25% worse. But 8 cores / 16 threads is enough for games even in stock - in the RDR2 benchmark, FPS decreased by 1%. I am ready to sacrifice this for the sake of comfort and silence.

As I wrote above, I wanted to return it! So, I was waiting for him for almost 3 weeks in the pulser store, when I came I flew for him in an instant, after a couple of days these laptops were not on sale, everything was sold out, you yourself understand why at this time ). came home satisfied, turned on a couple of hours and poyuzal . 1. I hate when there is vibration from coolers, uneven and uneven sound during overclocking and running at high speeds of coolers 2. The squeak of throttles, it so happened that I hear them everywhere, and often I sit at a laptop at night and in silent mode it can terribly infuriate! 3. A couple of glitches in the rog asus services, because of which I could not throw 150 mhz on the video card or make an undervolt 4. GPU up to 84-85 degrees, in my opinion this is a lot, well, a maximum of 80 but not higher! So after all this, I reset it to the factory settings and packed it in a box, the next day I called the store and they told me that the service on the weekend would come in a couple of days! then I find out that I can’t exchange it for the same one, since there are more of them no, but there is no desire and time to wait another month! I decided to re-unpack and try it again! so the second time it was not so bad) 1. I figured out the coolers by setting the correct quiet mode, now just a desktop, animated wallpaper, a browser with 10-15 tabs, the coolers do not turn on at all, maybe once an hour if I connect something from the software! And only the second time I I noticed that the coolers vibrate only in a certain rpm range (2300-2500 is the lowest rpm in quiet mode if they turn on at high rpm in games 4800-5200 in turbo mode). And then after a day of full load on them, or they a bit developed, whether I'm used to it, but for me it was not a big problem, especially if you play games, you won't notice it at all! In short, minus one problem! 2. With the squeak of throttles, I also thought that it would often appear, but again I was mistaken, only during games, and then not all, and this squeak is not from the cpu, but most likely from the gpu, and perhaps they even have one power circuit.